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Re: Visio drawings into Netscape Composer (longish saga)
Subject:Re: Visio drawings into Netscape Composer (longish saga) From:"Eric J. Ray" <ejray -at- RAYCOMM -dot- COM> Date:Thu, 27 Aug 1998 12:32:46 -0600
At 01:25 PM 8/27/98 -0500, Chris Collier wrote:
>I have had similar problems using Netscape Composer, regardless of the type of
>image I was trying to import. To refresh changes to an image, I have to exit
>Composer and reopen the HTML file in a new Composer session. AAAAAHHHG!
Yup. That'd be the solution. Also, check under Edit->Preferences->Advanced
and set both memory and disk cache to 0 while you are developing documents,
and have Navigator check for an updated copy Always when it loads a new
document. But, restarting Composer is often necessary.
Really, Composer isn't a very good tool for anything but a quick
and dirty Web page--it makes ugly HTML code, isn't stable or
consistent, and makes authors work far harder than they'd
have to work with raw code or other tools.
Eric
co-author, Netscape Composer for Dummies
(Deb, the other co-author, agrees.)
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